WO 171/1387 - 2 Royal Warwickshire Regiment - July 1944

Instructions regarding War Diaries and Intelligence Summaries are contained in F.S. Regs., Vol. 1. and the Staff Manual respectively Title pages will be prepared in manuscript.	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Army Form C.2118
	WAR DIARY or INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY	Unit: 2nd Bn The Royal Warwickshire Regt
Month and Year: July 1944	(Erase heading not required).	Commanding Officer: Lt-Col. D.L.A. Gibbs, DSO

Place	Date	Hour	Summary	Reference
	17		A quiet day. A Bde ‘O’ Gp was held in the morning for the Op to be carried out by the Bde on 18 Jul, which formed part of the big 2nd Army Op to extend the Bridgehead South of CAEN across the ORNE. In this Op 3 Br Inf Div was to attack objectives in the thickly wooded country to the East with the object of keeping a corridor open for 8 Armd Corps to pass through. 185 Inf Bde had the Southern-most of these objectives, the woods round the villages of CUILLERVILLE and EMIEVILLE. 2 KSLI would lead the advance with the Staffs Yeo at ‘H’ Hr, with the Bn following up when called for, followed by 1 Norfolk. The advance was to be preceeded by two hours’ bombing approximately by over one-thousand bombers.

Source: Jeroen Koppes, TracesOfWar.com, transcribing: Hans Houterman.

Disclaimer: This War Diary is based on its original, but typos might be corrected. Locations are calculated, so might not be in the correct place. For historical research, always check the originals.

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